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One of the UK’s foremost rock and blues guitarists, Marsden wrote or co-wrote several of Whitesnake’s hit songs, including Fool for Your Loving, She’s a Woman, Walking in the Shadow of the Blues, Trouble and the international chart-topper Here I Go Again.
The news was announced by the Swedish musician’s family, who told Wellander’s fans that he had died on Good Friday (7 April) “surrounded by his loved ones”. An eight-time Grammy winner, Beck earned his first in 1985 for best rock instrumental performance for “Escape. Beck’s wonderfully musical and deft use of his Stratocaster’s vibrato has remained the benchmark for decades, while since the 80s his abandoning of the pick has challenged preconceptions about fingnerstyle playing in rock. Born in the London borough of Sutton in 1944, Jeff Beck was – like his peers Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood – heavily influenced by American rock ‘n’ roll and blues of the 1950s, as well as the boundary-pushing virtuosity of Les Paul. Johnny Guitar, who has died aged 59 from motor neurone disease, was one of the "nearly men" of British pop music in the 60s.Despite being asked to join both Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones, Beck was content to plough his own path and follow his own muse. Beck formed The Jeff Beck Group in 1967 with Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood, and when that group dissolved he continued to create music as a solo artist or informal collaborator. With over 1000 different designs to choose from, you're sure to never run out of inspiration or ideas. But Rory Storm and the Hurricanes were on the slide, and in the Mersey Beat poll they slumped to 19th in 1963 and 18th in 1964. The pinnacle of this was Blow By Blow – Beck’s second fully solo album that reached number 4 in the charts and went platinum in 1975, and featured a wonderful, emotive encapsulation of everything that made Beck one of the great guitar players – the Stevie Wonder-penned Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers.
By 20, Rice was a member of banjo star JD Crowe’s band New South and by his mid-20s he had co-founded the Grismen quintet. Sometime during Christmas morning while making his coffee, our dear friend and guitar hero Tony Rice passed from this life and made his swift journey to his heavenly home,” Skaggs wrote on Facebook this weekend.
Beck played in bands around London while attending art college, but in 1963 the Rolling Stones’ Ian Stewart would introduce him to the sound of rhythm and blues – Beck would never be the same. To that end, you can find him on Twitter crowing about whatever great new guitar band you need to drop everything to hear right now.
From then on, Wellander became an integral part of the "core" of studio aces who played on ABBA's remarkable string of hit singles from the mid-'70s through to the early '80s. I have been blessed with a very devout audience all these years, and I am certainly not going to let anybody down. On the left side of the article it sites and shows a photo of the Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier "Bigfoot" Foot Swit.We mourn his tragic and premature death and remember the kind words, the sense of humour, the smiling face, the musical brilliance of the man who played such an integral role in the Abba story.
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